Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paper says that former IBM chief outside auditor Donald Chandler of Price Waterhouse & Co wrote in a 1988 memo that IBM was reporting revenues that it might never realise by booking sales when products were shipped — to its own warehouses for onward staging to customers , or to dealers who could return them . |
| 2 | Any tendency to diffuseness or ambiguity led to a wide range of interpretations and allowed teachers and heads to assert in good faith , whatever the nature of their practice , that they were implementing the LEA 's policies and principles . |
| 3 | Obviously , the heroin use of their son or daughter came as a great shock to most parents , many of whom seem to have had little or no idea that their offspring was involved in any drug use whatsoever , let alone daily heroin use . |
| 4 | As a result , for the bulk of those who delayed a decision about early retirement , unemployment or sickness amounted to a similar economic status to early retirement : non-employment . |
| 5 | The recruits hurried below to pack into the on-ship chapel , where incense burned before a lambent golden icon of the Emperor and an alabaster idol of Rogal Dorn , the founding Primarch of the Imperial Fists . |
| 6 | There is no evidence that prostitution existed as a sole source of income for its practitioners in the earliest forms of human society , among the so-called hunter-gatherers . |
| 7 | Sir Philip argued that anti-semitism appealed to a subconscious racial instinct which was almost universal , with the Colonel Blimps believing in the conspiracy theory , and that in East London it was envy of Jewish economic success which caused the problem ; this development represented the only real danger of fascism . |
| 8 | There was no time common to all popular music , as myriad fragments of past , present , and future whirled in a mad dance . |
| 9 | International representations in athletics came in abundance with Ainsley Bennett , Mike MacFarlane and Daley Thompson and football went through a veritable upsurge in the 1978–9 season with the likes of Viv Anderson , Laurie Cunningham , Cyrille Regis , Garry Thompson providing the vanguard of a train of black first-division players . |
| 10 | If recognition proceeded on a word-by-word basis we would know the beginning and end points of each word , and recognition could indeed take place entirely within the lexicon as these earlier models seem to assume . |
| 11 | Later , the prince and princess stood on a windswept hillside overlooking the border area with communist North Korea , as war veteran Sam Mercer described a battle fought there between Chinese troops and members of the Gloucestershire Regiment in April 1951 . |
| 12 | The Air Ministry ordered a larger wing , the ST-2 for testing on their Fokker F.VII/3m , and work began on a three-seat , low-wing monoplane with twin 50hp Salmson radials . |
| 13 | James shouted to Stephen , as an old man driving a decrepit mule and cart erupted from a narrow lane into the path of the jeep . |
| 14 | Then every star vanished , and the sky was instantly one piled mass of black cloud , out of which lightnings flashed and rain streamed in a circling torrent , swirled by the terrible wind . |
| 15 | He took the call in the sitting room and Rain sat on a red-painted kitchen chair and wondered how he came to be living in such circumstances . |
| 16 | The coroner chattered like a magpie as the weak daylight died and dusk fell like a grey powder , shrouding the wide waste stretches of snow . |
| 17 | She also said that the Department would re-investigate the situation if evidence arose of a further outbreak of the gizzard worm infection . |
| 18 | His assertion that postwar socialist realism has much to learn from the bourgeois tradition of critical realism marks paradoxically a return to the spirit of the intellectual climate in France in the 1930s when a general belief in the coincidence between the movement of history , socialism and realism led to a fruitful collaboration between the socialist realist writers of the French communist party , such as Aragon and Nizan , and sympathetic fellow-travellers such as Bloch , Malraux and Gide . |
| 19 | A fountain of earth and smoke erupted in a nearby field . |
| 20 | Men and machinery arrived with a great deal of noise and bustle . |
| 21 | As the 1987 Vienna OPEC conference approached , there was further talk of a price increase , although the mainstream preference was for waiting until demand stood at a level capable of sustaining one . |
| 22 | Erm and I should now like to introduce er Thomas , Director of Public Relations , who will talk us through 's product brands and competition followed by a detailed review of where our product fits into the market and it 's U S P . |
| 23 | Declining consumption of coal , oil and gas led to a 3 per cent fall in the UK 's carbon dioxide emissions , to 156 million tonnes , in 1992 . |
| 24 | Mother and daughter went into a sharp slanging match , with Walter fussing and trying to stop them . |
| 25 | After the equilibration period the perfusion medium was changed to buffer containing 15.8 mmol/l glucose and sampling started for a further 30 minute period . |
| 26 | If information arrived at a constant rate in calendar time , the approaches using calendar time and event time would be identical . |
| 27 | So that , erm just as you can construct a house out of bricks and mortar , and really , although the house looks very different from just bricks and mortar , it is just bricks and mortar arranged in a certain way , so the glass , the bottle , erm although it looks a very different thing from a sense experience , is really nothing more than a very complicated pattern of actual and possible sense experiences . |
| 28 | Perhaps the most striking example of such growing enthusiasm is from one of the boards which devoted 45 minutes in three consecutive meetings to a series of talks and discussion sled by a senior member of staff . |
| 29 | A plastic tumbler containing toothbrush and paste stood on a deeper shelf behind two thin metal rails designed to prevent things falling off . |
| 30 | Elsewhere , and in tune with a strong feeling towards more overtly natural colours and textures , pseudo-ecological shades of cream and stone emerged as a significant common denominator . |